10 best players of the 4-team playoff

The four-team College Football Playoff era comes to a close this season — one season after it should have ended. It was far from perfect and left us with plenty of controversy over the years, but it’s safe to say it was a better postseason format than the BCS that preceded it.

While there’s an expanded 12-team field to look forward to next season, let’s first look back at the best players of the four-team playoff era.

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Henry’s stats during the College Football Playoff weren’t eye-popping by his standards, but he still scored five touchdowns over two games as the Crimson Tide won the national title.

Henry won the Heisman Trophy ahead of the CFP on the heels of 90 carries over Alabama’s last two games of the season. Henry rushed 46 times for 271 yards and a TD against Auburn to end the regular season and rushed 44 times for 189 yards and a TD against Florida in the SEC title game.

He rushed for just 75 yards and two scores on 20 carries in Alabama’s easy win over Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl before he had 36 carries for 158 yards and three scores in Alabama’s 45-40 win over Clemson. Henry scored twice in the first half — including on a 50-yard run — and his one-yard run with 1:07 to go officially put the game away for the Crimson Tide.

Before he was bullying NFL defenses, Derrick Henry was doing it for Alabama en route to a national championship. (Robin Alam/Getty Images)

The current Minnesota Vikings star showed just how unstoppable he could be in the College Football Playoff at the end of the 2019 season.

Jefferson had 14 catches for 227 yards and four touchdowns as the Tigers blitzed Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl. All four of those TD catches came in the first 21 minutes of the game as LSU led the Sooners 35-7 before the midway point of the second…

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Publish date : 2023-12-29 15:43:12

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